{"product_id":"2940013086487","title":"MR. CREWE'S CAREER","description":"CHAPTER I. THE HONOURABLE HILARY VANE SITS FOR HIS PORTRAIT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI may as well begin this story with Mr. Hilary Vane, more frequently\u003cbr\u003eaddressed as the Honourable Hilary Vane, although it was the gentleman's\u003cbr\u003eproud boast that he had never held an office in his life. He belonged\u003cbr\u003eto the Vanes of Camden Street,--a beautiful village in the hills near\u003cbr\u003eRipton,--and was, in common with some other great men who had made\u003cbr\u003ea noise in New York and the nation, a graduate of Camden Wentworth\u003cbr\u003eAcademy. But Mr. Vane, when he was at home, lived on a wide,\u003cbr\u003emaple-shaded street in the city of Ripton, cared for by an elderly\u003cbr\u003ehousekeeper who had more edges than a new-fangled mowing machine.\u003cbr\u003eThe house was a porticoed one which had belonged to the Austens for a\u003cbr\u003ehundred years or more, for Hilary Vane had married, towards middle age,\u003cbr\u003eMiss Sarah Austen. In two years he was a widower, and he never tried it\u003cbr\u003eagain; he had the Austens' house, and that many-edged woman, Euphrasia\u003cbr\u003eCotton, the Austens' housekeeper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe house was of wood, and was painted white as regularly as leap year.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the street front to the vegetable garden in the extreme rear it was\u003cbr\u003eexceedingly long, and perhaps for propriety's sake--Hilary Vane lived\u003cbr\u003eat one end of it and Euphrasia at the other. Hilary was sixty-five,\u003cbr\u003eEuphrasia seventy, which is not old for frugal people, though it is\u003cbr\u003ejust as well to add that there had never been a breath of scandal about\u003cbr\u003eeither of them, in Ripton or elsewhere. For the Honourable Hilary's\u003cbr\u003emodest needs one room sufficed, and the front parlour had not been used\u003cbr\u003esince poor Sarah Austen's demise, thirty years before this story opens.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068631761136,"sku":"2940013086487","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013086487_p0.jpg?v=1763576593","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013086487","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}